Slipid streets lead to accidents in NRW

eat. Snowfall and slippery roads led to accidents, traffic chaos and fallen trees in many parts of North Rhine-Westphalia on Sunday. In most cases, however, nobody was injured, as a survey in the country's police headquarters showed. Nach Angaben des Deutschen Wetterdienstes (DWD) bildete die Stadt Essen am Sonntagmorgen mit einer Schneedecke von bis zu 17 Zentimetern die Schneedecke in Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Due to the slippery roads, vehicles came from the lane several times and slipped against guardrails, parked cars or street signs. In Olsberg in the Sauerland, a 31-year-old driver was slightly injured after losing control of her car in a right-hand bend. In Altena and Iserlohn in the Märkisches Kreis, clearing vehicles slipped into a ditch. The drivers aged 73 and 21 were slightly injured. In the Rhein-Kreis Neuss, a 20-year-old woman left the slippery street and was slightly injured when her car tipped over on the roof.

The tents of the Corona test station break down

The thick snow cover in Essen had formed within eight hours. There the police recorded around 23 weather -related missions by Sunday morning. The fire brigade was also increasingly deployed in Wuppertal and Solingen. Legal trucks standing on the side caused disorders on motorways such as the A61 at the Kerpen motorway junction near Cologne. There, officials temporarily blocked the connection to the A4 towards Cologne. In Cologne, around 400 winter service staff with 175 vehicles have freed the main roads of snow and ice.

in the Corona test station of a lung special clinic in Solingen collapsed tents due to the snow load. The test center was back in regular operation, the fire brigade said at noon. In Heinsberg, too, a circus tent collapsed under the amounts of snow, which was temporarily housed in a local parking lot. Supporters therefore tried to get donations on Facebook on Sunday.

At Cologne / Bonn Airport, flight operations had to be interrupted repeatedly until early morning. "Winter service was always in operation," said a spokesman. But there were no mistakes. Soft disorders and objects on the track temporarily caused delays and partially failures of regional and S-Bahn trains at Deutsche Bahn.

After the Lower Rhine was particularly affected by the snow in the night and early Sunday morning, he later shifted towards Sauerland. According to the weather service, the snow cover in Lüdenscheid grew from eight to 17 centimeters within four hours. On Saturday, municipalities such as Winterberg in the Sauerland announced that they are blocking their slopes. "There are no violations at all in the places where tobogganing is allowed," said a police spokesman for the Hochsauerland district on Sunday. Overall, fewer snow tourists came at the weekend.

In the last week of January it can go on again in winter, especially at night: On Monday evening, the weather service warned of slippery conditions and ice-cold moisture. Snow then falls again in the southwest of the country. Monday is under the "sign of the shower," said a DWD meteorologist. The temperatures were between two and four degrees during the day before it could snow again on Tuesday evening - rain or snow in the highlands is possible in the mountain region.